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Obama Takes Clinton's Word on RFK Gaffe

Posted:
05/25/08


Maybe her V.P. chances aren't dashed after all. Campaigning in San Juan yesterday, Barack Obama said he believed that Hillary Clinton wasn't implying what so many people believe she was with her repeated reminders that Robert Kennedy was assassinated in June of '68. From The Washington Post, Obama told a Puerto Rican radio audience:

"I have learned that, when you are campaigning for as many months as Senator Clinton and I have been campaigning, sometimes you get careless in terms of the statements that you make, and I think that this is what happened here. Senator Clinton says she did not intend any offense by it, and I will take her at her word on that."

Maybe everyone can chill out a bit on this story now, especially Keith Olbermann. While I think he made some valid points in the "Special Comment" that Tommy posted on Friday, the tone was so over the top, it gave me, and many other viewers, pause. Maybe we're all a bit worn out from this never-ending primary.

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